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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.

“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

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Esperanza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment. (Apr.)no PW review
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“A classic. . . . This little book has made a great space for itself on the shelf of American literature.” —Julia Alvarez

“Afortunado! Lucky! Lucky the generation who grew up with Esperanza andThe House on Mango Street. And lucky future readers. This funny, beautiful book will always be with us.” —Maxine Hong Kingston

“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage . . . and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Marvelous . . . spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisneros’s storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A deeply moving novel...delightful and poignant. . . . Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word.” —Miami Herald

“Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brillant of today’s young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful . . . rich with music and picture.” —Gwendolyn Brooks

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

About the Author

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Her classic, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation.

In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists. Her literary papers are preserved in Texas at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.

Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende.

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from the Introduction by John Phillip Santos

When we meet Esperanza Cordero, the almost mystically knowing young Chicana narrator of The House on Mango Street, she is already very much a canny teller of tales, speaking in medias res, in the midst of an unfolding story of her heroic quest to find a true home.

“We didn’t always live on Mango Street,” she begins. She details a litany of her family’s peregrinajes through previous houses in Chicago, as if reading from some codex memorializing a series of sacred migrations: “Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before that I can’t remember. But what I remember is moving a lot. Each time it seemed there’d be one more of us. By the time we got to Mango Street we were six – Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.”

Involuntary peregrinations and deprivations spark Esperanza’s imagination. Her family has had to leave their previous residence when the “water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fi x them because the house was too old. We had to leave fast.” Esperanza dreams of a house with “running water and pipes that worked.” She imagines a house with “three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn’t have to tell everybody.” It would be a white house, surrounded by a proper yard with trees and grass. “This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.”

But as Esperanza candidly reveals, the family’s new house on Mango Street only has one bathroom, and “Everybody has to share a bedroom – Mama and Papa, Carlos and Kiki, me and Nenny.”

“I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it.” And then, fathoming her disappointment and longing, Esperanza takes us into her confidence, she shares something that is beyond an intuition – it’s a glimpse at a secret, deeper knowing of unknown origin that will propel and inflect the unforgettable stories that are to come: “For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.”

How can she know this? How can such she already know the way things go? And why is she offering us her testimonio?

It’s Esperanza’s ineluctable knowing and her indelible way of expressing it which transfi xes readers around the globe with a universal human story of a young girl’s becoming, establishing The House on Mango Street over decades as the first Latinx American classic of world letters. Seven million copies have been sold in the United States, and millions more abroad, in as many as twenty-six translations. Notably, it is also the fi rst book by a US-born Latinx writer to be included in the legendary and august Everyman’s Library series, auspicious indeed for the author and the book – as well as for the series. And as celebrated as the novel has been in the forty years since its publication, it’s important to point out that despite wide adoption in school curricula, it has also been banned from schools in numerous fl ashpoints during America’s recent and ongoing culture wars, officially cited for “age appropriateness” – but it’s Esperanza’s searing powers of observation, and her “knowing” of the world around her, especially coming from a young Chicana, that seem to strike fear in some people’s hearts.

As the author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros brings a profound new embrace of a unique literary legacy of the Americas to the Everyman series, as an American writer who is mestiza, feminista, urbana, cosmopolitana, and sin vergüenza – all without shame.

Esperanza’s limpid voice, her deceptively simple diction, her unique lyrical vernacular, belie a profound understanding of the complex intricacies of our humanity that can’t be fully explained, but it has deep roots in the experiences, readings, and understandings of the author, herself an oracle of a knowing that eludes explanation.

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I met Sandra Cisneros in my hometown of San Antonio, Texas in 1983, just before the publication of The House on Mango Street by a small Latino publishing house in Houston, Arte Público Press, that first published works of now well-known Latinx writers, as well as “lost” Latinx literary works. Vivacious, loquacious, and audacious, with an electric halo of ebony curls, she was by then entirely a protean whirlwind of literary marvel. She was just back from a walkabout across Europe (including four months in Yugoslavia), and the Mediterranean. Both of us were aspiring writers, but her aspirations were feverishly inquisitive, passionate and opinionated, volubly rooted in a commitment to writing as an act of bounding invention, and social conscience. A poet and fiction writer, she possessed a documentary eye that saw the many ways the world oppressed the poor and the marginalized.

She was a force unlike any I’d yet encountered, determined to use her gifts to sow new seeds in the fallow fi elds of American letters, so long ignorant and dismissive of voices like hers. And Chicanx letters, the work of Mexican American writers, were in an uncertain, in-between moment, emerging from a rich movimiento history into we-knew-not-yet what was to come.

As fate would have it, we were the finalists to become the inaugural Director of the literature program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a newly created haven for Mexican American arts, literature, music, and theater in my hometown of San Antonio. Sandra (forgive the familiarity, but to refer to her any other way feels fake) got the job, but in meeting her then, I gained a lifelong literary ally, interlocutor, mentor, and occasional conspirator.

I had learned much from powerful women writers. I grew up with the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, had carried on a fraught correspondence with Laura (Riding) Jackson, and now Sandra arrived in San Antonio with a spell-binding sense of her own destiny, a destiny that would shortly unfold further in grand ways that were somehow against all odds while possessing a certain inevitability. She was an inspiration, and indeed, in three-hundred-year-old San Antonio she would eventually become La Sandra, a transforming presence for the city, and eventually for American literature.

It would take a while yet for the world to fully take note of The House on Mango Street, the mesmerizing testimonio of the journey of Esperanza Cordero among the souls and spaces of her Chicago neighborhood, as she struggles to assert her place in the world, as she longs for the dreamed-of house of her own. The path of this now universally classic novel to this Everyman’s Library edition would be lengthy, and bumpy.

After the book’s initial publication by the Houston small press, Sandra met her agent and forever since dharma companion Susan Bergholz. It was with the eventual publication of The House on Mango Street by Vintage Books in 1989 that the novel would begin to find its staggering, first national, then ever-widening global readership. But that wasn’t thanks to any career-forging reviews in major newspapers or literary journals, virtually all of whom maintained their studied inattention and ignored the book. I remember it more as a gradually rising tide of word-of-mouth revelations, people passing the book along to one another like the talisman of a new reckoning with ourselves.

Like my thirteen-year-old daughter Francesca, who recently read the copy I handed her for the first time, after which she shared: “As a young Latina who is still figuring out everything, this book gave me so many ways to relate to the young protagonist. I saw myself in her, and I think many other girls my age could too. The feeling of not wanting to be contained – to not be limited to the things we get to do, say, or experience. The longing for more is something I cannot only greatly appreciate, but also deeply understand. I loved this book because usually when adults try to get into the minds of children, it’s a colossal fail. It’s unrealistic – and can even feel like they’re mocking us. It just doesn’t sit right. Sandra goes into the minds of children in a realistic way, adding beautiful touches of vibrant culture that makes me proud to be a Mexican American.”

You get it? Literally millions have shared this experience, and this is a book that continues to light up souls.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0679734775
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 1991
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 110 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780679734772
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679734772
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.4 x 8 inches
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 870L

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships.

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The House on Mango Street Book Review
The House on Mango Street, a coming of age book by Sandra Cisneros that takes you through years in the life of Esperanza Cordero, while she is living on Mango Street in Chicago, Illinois. The book is written in many short stories or vignettes of two to three pages rather than one long novel of chapters. You learn who Esperanza is as she is figuring herself out. Although the house on Mango Street is an improvement from past houses. Esperanza hopes for a better one in the future and feels like she does not belong there.
Esperanza has trouble defining herself. At the beginning of the book, she doesn't like her name and tries to defy everything she thinks she is “supposed” to be. Esperanza calls her name a “muddy color,” saying it means sadness and waiting. She was named after her great-grandmother, she had a life looking out the window. Esperanza had inherited her name but did not want to inherit the spot by the window.
Esperanza meets many people throughout the book. Mamacita, who never leaves her house because she is frightened of English. Cathy, who is the “queen of cats,” Meme Ortiz, the man who moved into Cathy’s house when she moved out, Sally her best friend, and Nenny her younger sister. All these people taught Esperanza lessons about life and helped shape the impact Mango Street had on her.
Throughout The House on Mango Street, Esperanza experiences a sexual awakening, in the beginning, she is very pure and will only interact with her brothers. But she witnesses her neighbors being abused and knows that she wants to get away from that. The “Monkey Garden” was a place felt safe and could be a kid, but that was then taken when some boys stole sally’s keys and made her kiss all of them to get them back. She then loses her innocence, after being raped by a man at the carnival when her friend Sally leaves her there.
In the end, Esperanza talks to Alicia, a girl studying in college, and Alicia tells her that even if you do not like the house on Mango Street you will come back to it, no matter how ashamed you are of it now. Esperanza vows that she will leave Mango Street but will come back to it for the neighbors and friends. She could never forget where she came from. Esperanza has changed through this book and went from being a kid to becoming a young adult.
I really enjoyed this book because it was an easy read, but there was a lot to take from it. The book gave me a new view on growing up in different neighborhoods, and the struggles others face that I do not. It teaches you what it is like to live life in a less desirable neighborhood. I would recommend this book to young readers or if you enjoy books about facing reality. The book was very touching and written in a unique way.

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read her poetry
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The preface is awesome.
The book: some pieces are much stronger than others.
If you love Mango, though... read her poetry!
I feel she is really a poet most of all.
Read My Wicked, Wicked Ways and Woman Without Shame.
The poetry is where it's at.

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A novella and a coming of age tale that feels dated. Clearly the experiences of being an outsider are somewhat universal but not eternal. Our world and our cities have changed and describing the 1980s experience does not resonate 40 years later.

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is Timeless!
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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is Timeless by Mitzy Sky

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was recommended reading for me by my instructor, Christina Chiu, author of Beauty and Troublemaker and Other Saints, during the 2023 Yale Writers’ Workshop. After reading my submission for the workshop, Christina advised me that she needed me to show the story and not tell it. I am so grateful to her for introducing me to The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros’ description of showing you her story and not just telling you allowed me to be there on Mango Street with her. The House on Mango Street is now part of me, and it feels like it has always been there waiting for me to remember her. While reading it, I was taken back in my mind to all the neighborhoods I lived in growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the place that I can go to whenever I need to is my big yard with my little board house down the lane off the big road in Bogwalk St. Catherine Jamaica. I have been granted by grace this peace to live this human experience fully and allow my spirit to have a home in the body, heart, and mind where I live, here and now. I recommend anyone searching for stillness to read this little book, which will be your biggest treasure!

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is Timeless by Mitzy Sky

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was recommended reading for me by my instructor, Christina Chiu, author of Beauty and Troublemaker and Other Saints, during the 2023 Yale Writers’ Workshop. After reading my submission for the workshop, Christina advised me that she needed me to show the story and not tell it. I am so grateful to her for introducing me to The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros’ description of showing you her story and not just telling you allowed me to be there on Mango Street with her. The House on Mango Street is now part of me, and it feels like it has always been there waiting for me to remember her. While reading it, I was taken back in my mind to all the neighborhoods I lived in growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the place that I can go to whenever I need to is my big yard with my little board house down the lane off the big road in Bogwalk St. Catherine Jamaica. I have been granted by grace this peace to live this human experience fully and allow my spirit to have a home in the body, heart, and mind where I live, here and now. I recommend anyone searching for stillness to read this little book, which will be your biggest treasure!

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Easy reading - You can finish this in one sitting
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Positives: This book is considered a cultural classic so an informed person might like to take a look at it to see why. More books should be published that are actually written by teenage girls at the time they are teens so we can understand them better and perhaps help them. The vignettes do reflect some of Esperanza’s (now Sandra’s) actual experiences. Her relationship and ideas about boys and her Hispanic friends are especially interesting and worthwhile reading about.
Negatives: Obviously the narratives have been doctored, edited, and adjusted to speed sales and to make things more viable commercially. That detracts from our understanding of the real nature of her poverty, isolation, sexual coming of age, and abusive family relationships. The adjusted author wants us to feel good and she aims, at times, toward that goal depriving us of knowing the reality of growing up under the impoverished conditions of her youth. If things were so rosy on Mango Street, why was she so eager to escape? The other thing that bothers my sleep is that the author is so full of herself her ego often gets in the way of effective story telling. Almost everything is about her and there is no real understanding or even an attempt at understanding the others and their viewpoints. If you think my criticism of her solipsistic personality unjust, you haven’t read her 2009 introduction.

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Rama
The house on the mango street
Reviewed in India on August 23, 2024
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Sandra Cisneros just pulled it off. This work gives you the feel of what next the protagonist is about to do.The work is crucial for its themes. Must read if you are working on your
thesis or dissertation on hemes such as loneliness, thirst to achieve in life etc. This work completely brings out the 'inner self' in us.

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Raul Quesada
Bueno para nivel B2
Reviewed in Spain on August 21, 2022
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Es entretenido.

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Paulina
great
Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 30, 2024
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I like the way how the book is written, the plot is very sincere and involving

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Elizabeth Scrase
Great little book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2017
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Great little book. Take it as a coming of age story almost like a lazy diary. It is written with a accent so some of the phrasing will require understanding but it projects authenticity.

Essential read if you enjoy flash fiction and short stories. The way the author writes condenses so much into so little. Clever, thought provoking and an education.

Definitely worth it.

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Susi Sonnenschein
Es war eine Schullektüre.
Reviewed in Germany on August 1, 2024
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Was soll ich sagen, dass Buch kam schnell an, es war in einem sehr guten Zustand.
Aber es war auch für die Schule bestellt worden, sonst hätte ich es mir persönlich nicht gekauft. Aber das steht ja auch auf einem anderen Blatt. 😉

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5.0 out of 5 stars Esperanza hopes for a better one in the future and feels like she does ...

5.0 out of 5 stars read her poetry

4.0 out of 5 stars Not sure that I want to visit

5.0 out of 5 stars The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is Timeless!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Easy reading - You can finish this in one sitting

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5.0 out of 5 stars Es war eine Schullektüre.

Esperanza hopes for a better one in the future and feels like she does ...

read her poetry

Not sure that I want to visit

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is Timeless!

Easy reading - You can finish this in one sitting

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Es war eine Schullektüre.